Tomato of Doom

Doom I say! I dunno there's just something hinky with this tomato. Its just not right. I think its a Tomato of Doom. Happy Thursday ever...

Fall Planting and Shelling Beans

Someone asked me yesterday if there was still time for fall planting? Sure! There's always time for more planting.  As you know I've...

Ohio's Stories from the Great Depression

No time to blog today - I'm totally sucked into this amazing website. Have you seen Ohio's Department of Aging Great Depression Sto...

Peps and Zucchini

Not a peck but a nice bucket of peppers......  These are mostly Marconi and Hungarian sweet and wax peppers.  The other day I also brought i...

So it rained here

Awesome. Would have been great, tho, if it would have rained this much over a couple hours but this was about 30 minutes worth. That's O...

Mid-Summer Farm Update

Ok I know its not officially "mid-summer" but we're rushing headlong into the end of summer and a lot has happened.... with mo...

Tomato time!

No time to talk - its Tomato Season! I'm hauling them in by the bucket load...... Its like an Easter Egg hunt - the vines are positively...

Now THAT'S an oxheart! **updated

Remember last year I was all hacked off b ecause the oxheart tomatoes that I planted were funny looking ? This year I hit one clean out of t...

And now back to summer.....

Did everyone enjoy the rain? After the storm front passed we got a lovely rain for several hours last nite. And despite an intensely thunder...

Storm Prep - Derecho Part2: Code Orange

Mid-West and Eastern folks - are you ready for the storms today!?!?!  Get your weather radars on now and keep a weather eye on the sky. The ...

Ouch!

Umm...Drat. Good Ol' SwingBlade took one for the team. I'm gonna have to work on this.  I think I mighta whacked a fence post with i...

Finally. A little relief....

The best thing about Friday was..... ... it rained. Finally! And all God's people said... Amen. Looks to be more later this week - we co...

Let's just look at some sunflowers

I had a different post planned for today - but if you're like me you woke up to the shocking news of the shooting in Colorado. So instea...

It's Hot. Real Hot. And Dry.

The Relentless Summer of 2012 continues. Mostly its just hot hot hot and more hot with additional heat on the side. And no rain . The lucky ...

Taking Up The Taters

We've been taking up the 'taters!  Nothing compares to fresh, new potatoes right from your garden. Whether its from the heat, or my ...

The "D" Word. How Dry Is It?

Dry. Its real dry. Last nite on the news they finally said the "D" word - oh its a drought alright . All you really need to do is ...

Oh Deer, Why We Need Kai

The beans I planted outside the gate have been doing great! Just about every day I go out there with the water trolley and the hoe to keep t...

Clara CoonHammer

Editor's note: We continue the tall tail of OFG and the Adventures in the Good Land. New readers may begin this part of the story here ...

Blow Hard 2012 - Wind Storm Disaster Q & A with OFG

We learned a new word this past week: derecho. Its basically a land hurricane and wow did it pack a punch! We had straight line winds wi...